The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-02
FARM AND FIREsIpE.


TO prevent ustard-plasters from
blistering, mix with the white of an
egg.
I'm the matter of raising crops
cheaply, it is safe to lay down the prin-
ciple that large crops cost less to the
acre than small ones. Chicago Journal.
Kerosene will cure the scaly legs
on fowls. Anoint the legs once week
with kerosene for three or four weeks
and the legs will become perfectly
clean = Philadelphia Record.
The skin of boiled egg is the mos
efficacious remedy that can be applied
to boil. Peel it carefully, wet and
apply to the part affected. 1t will draw
off the matter and relieve the soreness
in few hours.--Erchanqc.
Now that cold weather has set in,
Jake care that all the fowls are well
sheltered at all times. They need lit
tie heat now. and an occasional feed of
corn at night, slightly parched, will
help along. Times.
1t is said that solution of pilocar-
pine, two grains to the ounce of water,
injected into the tooth cavity will cure
neuralgia caused by bad teeth. From
an eighth to a qnarter of grain seems
sufficient to check the pain in the course
of an hour.-H Health and Home.
The fact is very suggestive that the
egg supply falls off most rapidly while
the days are shortening, and is smallest
always during the months when the
hours of sunshine are the fewest No
preparation for getting eggs in winter
is complete which does not provide. be-
sides warmth and good feeding, plen-
tiful supply of sunshine. -Prairie
Farmer.
Lemon Custard: Beat together ono
cup of sugar, one teaspoonful butter,
three eggs and the juice and grated
rind of one lemon. Put three cups of
milk in basin on the stove, and, when
| it comes to boil, add the beaten eggs,
sugar, ETC.. stirring quickly all the
time. When thoroughly mixed, set it
in the oven and bake about twenty min
utes, or until set.-7He Caterer.
I'm answer to the question, "Does
alsike clover make dark-coloredh oneyp"
several correspondents of the Bee Jour
nal say it does not. Others say it makes
a honey slightly darker than that from
white clover, but not as dark as buck
wheat honey. One reply says alsike
clover honey has apinkish color; anoth-
err that it is every way equal to white
clover honey.
-Candied Citron: Peel and seed the
citron; let it lay over night in weak
sugar water. Next morning drain
through colander, take one pound of
granulated sugar to one pound of
citron; put the sugar on and boil until
quite thick strip is formed. then drop
the citron in and cook slowly until it is
very tender and clear; when done pour
on plates and set in a warm place to
dry then sprinkle with graduated
sugar and keep in glass jars. Exchange.
If well laid, a stone drain should
last as long as one Of tile. If a con-
siderable amount of stone is used and
there is good outlet stone drain will
never fill up SO that some water will
not pass through it. Too great fall
or too large an amount of water is apt
to displace stones. Hence attempts to
make the stone in the form of an arch
often fail One side or the other is
liable to be displaced. and presently a
stone is pushed into the channel Earth
accumulates around this and the eff
cheney of the drain is impaired. Tile
set in ditch just wide enough to re-
ceive it can not easily be displaced
Western Rural.